Dagh Dehlvi

The book describes Dagh as a court poet of Rampur who went to Hyderabad and became the Nizam’s teacher in poetry, living there in great honour as Poet Laureate with the title Fasih-ul-Mulk, "the eloquence of the nation". His poetry is described as natural and graceful in expression, and he is said to have been without a rival in the mushaira.

The 4 pieces given here are drawn from Hindustani Lyrics (London: The Sufi Publishing Society, 1919), in the English verse of Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. They are free renderings, not literal translations, and the original Urdu poems are untitled; each is named here by its first line.